del.icio.us
So, I’m a slow starter with this one.
I signed up for a del.icio.us account years ago; it didn’t really do what I wanted.
Over the past week I’ve come to reevaluate this decision, prompted largely by conversations with Chris Gerhard, a big supporter of standard APIs and communication between sites, etc. (note how hard I tried not to say Web 2.0)
For the past six months I’ve been using FoxMarks to sync my bookmarks between my desktop and laptop. Admittedly, I don’t use my laptop that much these days, but it is handy to have everything accessible when I need it.
What does del.icio.us offer over FoxMarks? To be honest, not a lot… my bookmarks were all fairly well organised, and I could always find what I needed. But the big drawback to Firefox Bookmarks was the pain of figuring out which category to file it under, not to mention the sheer number of clicks it takes to do this.
Now that I’m getting started with del.icio.us I’m really hoping that my bookmarking habits will get better, if only because the task is so less painful.
In the future I’d like to get some proper Wordpress-delicious integration going. There are a whole raft of plugins available, but it looks as though most of the implementations have fallen a little short of what I had expected.
It’ll be ready when it’s done.
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